The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27

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is being pushed with even greater
energy as the time for opening draws
near. | visited the grounds of the
Wild West one day this week, and
was astonished to find them nearly
completed, although it will be over q
month before Buffalo Bill and his
cohorts invade London. The cowall
for the buffaloes was completed and
painted, the extensive stables com.
pleted and receiving their interior
fittings, and the enormous grand
stand progressing rapidly, the heavy
framing being in process Of covering
All the fences are up, and the track
and encampment laid out and sodded.
4 he gardens are also in a very for
ward state, aud the main building is
growing under the hands of nearly
200 men, roofing, flooring, and put
ing the iron sides on simultaneously.
The director general, Mr.. Whitley,
tells me they will be ready to open,
and open without the usual concert
of hammers incident to the inaugural
ceremonies Of most, if not all exhi-
billions. The exhibits are beginning
to arrive, and Mr.. Smith, the chief
Of installation, says that exhibitors
should hurry up shipments, so that
everything may be in place on the
opening day.
Mile. Gayrard Pacini, pianiste to
the Princess Of Wales, gave a grand
musicale on Tuesday last, at the
studio of Mr.. Dampier May, the
portrait painter. The attendance
was very large, and many notables
and diplomatists were present.
Among the artistes who assisted
Mile. Pacini were two we'll known in
America, namely, Nine. Louise Pyk-
Newson and Miss Norreys. The
former sung with her accustomed
success, being great favorite here,
and the latter recited with marked
ability, and is having great success
as the leading lady in Pinero's Dandy
Dick q. the Court Theater.
| have promised my lady readers
some fashion notes recently, so | con-
dense the following from an unim-
peachable authority:
One of the most extraordinary
freaks Of fashion INDUCED in during
the past winter has been the entire
absence of white under garments for
ladies; colored stockings were first
decreed instead Of white ones, and
then all the rest of the underwear
followed suit. The extreme of ele-
gance is for a lady in ball toilet to
be entirely arrayed in garments the
color Of her dress. The undermost
garments of surah, the corset of sat
10, the inner petticoat of finely en-
broidered flannel, the outer one of
taffetas, must all be in the pale blue,
pink or scarlet of the dress. Fine
cambria, dotted or striped in fine
lines. in vivid scarlet, and flushed
with scallops in button hole en-
broidery in scarlet thread, is used as
a substitute for surah for the under
garments. Even the handkerchief is
no longer white, but is in colored
cambria, bordered with button hole
stitch embroidery in white, and hav-
ing the wearer's monogram worked
in white. Ruches in crepe Hsse or in
plated cambria to be worn
to the throat and wrists
are as tota ly out of
fashion as though they had never
been in it. In fact, nothing white
remains but the night dress, and that
is now supplemented by a matinee in
cashmere or surah, deliberately trim
med with lace and ribbon, which the
fair wearer is supposed to slip on be-
fore taking her early cup Of coffee
or tea.
Stage door Washers are not I'M
known in our country, though we
never see the sights there that can
be seen any night at any London
theater where comic opera or bur
lesque is being played. But it remains
for the Shah of Persia to eclipse
everything known in that line.
A Frenchman, one M. Leger,
knowing the Shah's partially for
European revels, has just taken an
opera .bouffe company to the Persian
capital. He was certain the Shah
would honor the first night and that
all the big bashaws would follow
their monarch's example. And so
they did, not only in coming to the
show, but in what they did when
they got there. The curtain had not
been up twenty minutes when NJ.
Leger received a note from His
Majesty making a handsome bid for
three of the chorus ladies. Before
the piece was over the puzzled man
ager was in possession Of cash offers
for the whole of the female members
of his company. The tastes of the
bashaws in the audience were varied;
in most cases each would be sutton
had selected blonde and brunette,
and one rich old general from the
Caucasus offered to transfer the
whole bevy of twenty-four fair
Parisiennes to his harem. On the
state of the audience being made
known to the interested parties they
fatty refused to perform again, and
M. Leger, nall ruined, has betaken
himself and his company to the less
combustible atmosphere of St. Pc
tersburg.
Speaking, or rather writing of
queer scenes in a theater, Bronson
play, The Bankers Daugh-
ter, is known and popular still in
England under the title of The Old
LoUe and the Ne,o. Recently at
performance of it in the provinces,
and at the commencement of the
third act, the bankers wife is dis
covered reclining on a velvet fduteuI
in a regally furnished boudoir, at
tended by her maid. For some rea-
son or other, the banker, who should
have entered almost Immediately,
kept the stage waiting for fully two
minutes. The two actresses we're
therefore compelled to gag" to fill
up the time. Each had nearly ex-
hausted her fund of improvisation,
when suddenly the Abigail hit upon
what she conceived to be happy
idea.
"Ohl my lady" she cried. falling